PyFerret Documentation and Downloads Pages Now Available

“For those interested in trying out PyFerret (Ferret as a Python module – presented at this Spring’s AMS session), or those just interested in knowing more about PyFerret, there are now documentation and download pages available on the Ferret website under the documentation tab:

Toward the bottom part of the page is the link for the Downloads page, which gives links for pre-built binaries and for source (as gzipped tar files). Below it is a link for the Installing or Building PyFerret page, which gives step-by-step instructions for installing or building the program. There is also a link for the Known Issues page, listing the most serious bugs that I am aware of.

There still is a heavy dependency on knowing Ferret’s commands and language to retrieve, manipulate, display, and save data, so this package is more designed for the Ferret user wanting to work with their data in Python. But this package may also be attractive to Python users who are willing to learn some of the basic Ferret commands. (There are lots of documentation and tutorials on the Ferret website.)”